Posts Tagged: Russian Jewish community
Somewhere in Between: A Look at the American Russian-Speaking Jewish Experience
On a gray weekday afternoon, on the Brighton Beach Boardwalk in Brooklyn, the rhythmic clatter of dominoes on plastic tables mingles with the scent of...
Hundreds Gather in Russia for Largest-Ever Limmud FSU Jewish Education Confab
JNS.org -- More than 650 people recently gathered in St. Petersburg, Russia, for the largest-ever conference in that city hosted by Limmud FSU, a decade-old international Jewish...
Mikhail Khodorkovsky Released After Pardon by Russian President Vladimir Putin
JNS.org - Russian President Vladimir Putin has pardoned oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, whose father is Jewish and has been incarcerated for a decade since...
AJC Humanitarian Award Nominates Fishbein, Schatten
Philip Schatten and Cheryl Fishbein were honored by the American Jewish Committee as awardees of the AJC National Human Relations Award at its annual gala...
